Improved apparatus for filling bottles



paratus removed.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY IV. PUTNAM, OF CLEVELAND, OIIIO.

IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR FILLING BOTTLES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 33,602, dated October 29, 1861.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. PUTNAM, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in an Apparatus for Filling Bottles with Sirup and Mineral Water; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in whichn Figure l is a top view. Fig. 2 is a vertical section in the direction of the linewa: in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a top view with a part of the ap- Fig. 4 is a vertical section. Fig. 5 is a vertical section in the direction of the line in fr in Fig. 1. Figs. 6 and 7 are detached sections which will be referred to in the description.

The same letters of reference refer to like parts in the different views.

The nature of my invention relates to tilling bottles with a given quantity of sirup and mineral water (water charged with carbonic acid under pressure) by one continuous operation, as hereinafter specified.

In Figs. l, 2, 3, and 4, A represents a barrel, one end of which is connected to the chamber B, as shownin Figs. 2 and 4, and on the other end is screwed the cap C,a partof it forming the packingbox I), in which is screwed the nut E. ,I F'is'the piston-rod, and G'the piston on one end of it, which is surrounded with packing to h't closely inside of the barrel. The end of thepiston is the seat of the valve H, and Il is the valve-stem that extends through the piston into the piston-rod, the pin I passing through the end of it and also through the slot J, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, keeping the valve in place as it is opened and closed. The spiral spring L between the pin I and piston is designed to aid in closing the valve when the sirup is being forced into the bottle. The arm M is attached to the pistonrod and is secured in place by the nut K, Figs. 2 and 4, and by means of it the piston-rod is connected to the other part of the apparatus by the connecting-rod N. (Shown in Figs. l and 2.)

The inside end of the barrel A is the seat of the valve O, with 'wings O on one side and stein O" on the other, that passes inside of the spiral spring S, which is kept in place by extending into the valve-seat S. This spring closes the valve when pressure from the barrel is removed, and the stem O prevents it from being opened too far, and thus getting out of place.

C', Fig. 3, represents the seat of a circular valve, which is shown at Y, Fig. 7.

R, Figs. 3 and 5, is an opening that extends down through the piece B and in through the tube P, as shown at P', Fig. 5, on whichV there is designed to be screwed the pipe that connects with the water-chamber.

R is another opening that extends down and passes into the chamber B, as indicated by the dotted lines R in Figs. 2,4, and 5, and out through the pipe E.

Y', Fig. 7, is a curved slot in the valve Y, that extends over both the openings R and R when the valve is open, as shown by the red line in Fig. 8; but when it is closed the slot is turned round to the other side of the valve-seat and the blank side of the valve is over the holes, thus closing up the communication between the openings R and R.

NV is a circular piece, the lower part of which forms the valve Y, that is placed on the standard or screw D and retained there by the nut g. On the top of this piece is secured the pin H, on which is placed the end of the connecting-rod, as represented in Fig. 1.

N is a stop forming a part of the piece B to prevent the handle L from being turned round too far by the gage-screw z coming against it, as indicated by the dotted lines .2" in Fig. 1. The tube or pipe Ecoinmunicates with the chamber B through the opening F', and on the end of this tube is screwed apipc that connects with the bottle. V

The tube V, Fig. 1that opens into the barrel A, is also connected in the saine way to the vessel containing the sirup.

Having explained the construction of this apparatus,I will proceed to describe the principles of its operation.

Then the different tubes are connected to the pipes, as before described, and when the handle L and connecting-rod are in the position shown in Fig. l, the piston is in the inside end of the barrel-chamber, as seen in Fig. 2, which allows the sirup to pass in through the pipe V into the barrel.

ing the handle round from d to a the con- By turnv necting and piston rods will bein the posi tion indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. l, and as the piston is in the act of passing from its position in Fig. 2 to its position in Fig. a (by thismovement of the handle) the sirup passes through the holes h, opening the valve H, filling up the chamber b, which is a partial vacuum. Now by reversing the movement of the handle, turning it from ct to c., the piston moves to its position in Fig.

2 and forces all the sirup in the chamber b through the valve O into the chamber B, and from thence it passes through the opening F into the bottle. By this movement of the handle the valve Y is closed and there is no communication between the water and the chamber B; but by turning the handle again from d to a the curved slot Y is brought over both the openings'R and R', when the water passes up through R and along the curved slot,4 as indicated by the arrow in Fig. 3,. down through R into the chamber B, when it passes through the tube E', following the sirup into the bottle. The moment the pressure in the barrel is removed from the valve O the spring' S closes it, which is before the water commences coming inte the chamber l5. If it is desired to fill the bottles entirely with mineral water, all that is necessary is to remove the connecting-'rod N. Thus by one continuons operation bottles can be iilled with the same quantity and proportion of sirup and mineral water, and both can be increased or decreased by changing the gage-screw If less sirup is desired to pass into the bottles, remove the screw and place it so that the handle cannot be turned round so far. The stroke of the piston will then be shortened and the chamber b less, which will diminish the quantity of sirup passing into each bottle..A The pin H in the side of the piece W prevents the handle from being turned round too far in the direction from ct' Ct, as shown in Fig. l. I A

The ordinary way of filling bottles with sirup and mineral water is to pour in the sirup iirst with funnels and dippers. They are then taken to another place, where they are filled with'inineral water from fountains charged with Carbonia-acid gas, an ordinary faucet being used to admit and cut oft the same. The corks are then driven in and secured by twine or Wire fasteners; but with my invention bottles are filled with the regular quantity of sirup, and with the same continuous operation the mineral water is forced in, overcoming entirely the common difficulty arising from flies, land only two-thirds of the labor is required with this apparatus that is indispensable in the ordinary method, for in the usual way it requires one person to fill the bottles with sirup, another tohandle them, and a third to put in the mineral water, when with this apparatus one person only is required to operate the apparatus and cork the bottles, while another hands them to and from the operator, dispensing entirely with one hand, two persons thus performing the labor that requires three persons in the ordinary way.

The tube I connects with a fountain or water-chamber charged with carbonic acid munication, as seen in Fig. 3, the pressure from the fountain forces the charged water through the chamber B, following the sirup through the pipe F', Fig. 5, into the bottle, the cork being introduced and secured while under pressure from the charged fountain.

Vhat I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

So combining aforce-pump by which the sirup is injected into the bottle in a given quantity with a fountain of water charged with carbonio acid under pressure, by which means the bottle is filled with due proportions of the two liquids with one continuons operation, substantially as described.

HENRY W. PUTNAM. NVitnesses: W. H. BURRIDGE,

A. MCCLELLAND. 

